Dr. David Blitzer will be presenting the keynote address on Thursday, November 8th from 8 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. at Hofstra University’s seminar: Real Estate and Alternative Investments: 2012 and Beyond. The half-day seminar will examine the trends and issues of investing in real estate and alternative investments in 2012 and after. Uncertainty, market volatility […]

RealtyTrac® , reported on October 25th, third quarter foreclosure activity decreased from a year ago in 131 out of the nation’s 212 (62 percent) metropolitan areas with a population of 200,000 or more. Third quarter foreclosure activity decreased from the previous quarter in 134 of the metro areas tracked in the report (63 percent). Foreclosure activity […]

Professor Robert Shiller, co-founder of the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index, discusses the social epidemics that drive the economy and the role of expectations during the home buying process in a recent article for the New York Times. Click here to access the full article.

U.S. housing starts surged by 15.0% to 872,000 units in September. It was much stronger than the 770,000 expected by consensus and comes after the prior month was upwardly revised to a 758,000 unit rate (was 750,000 units). Both components were stronger. Single-family starts jumped by 11.0% over August, while multi-family starts surged by 25.1% […]

The National Association of Home Builders confidence index rose to 41, the highest level since June 2006 and the National Association of Realtors reports a further drop in houses, town-houses, condos and coops listed for sale, down 17.7% over the last year. Major cities in California were among those locations reporting the largest year over year […]